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| | Subsequent to the campus intifada of 2024, and our proposed [[israel palestine debate|public disputation on the Israel / Palestine question]] under rules of parliamentary debate. |
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| ===== Sophistic Refutations of Anti-Israelism ====== | ===== Sophistic Refutations of Anti-Israelism ====== |
| // See also: [[Open letter to UO#Endorsing_faculty_shared_principles_denouncing_the_bigoted_ignorance_of_the_students_union|Open letter to UO - Endorsing faculty shared principles denouncing the bigoted ignorance of the Students Union]] // | // Originally published in [[PSU#Open letter to PSU]] and [[Open letter to UO#Endorsing_faculty_shared_principles_denouncing_the_bigoted_ignorance_of_the_students_union|Open letter to UO - Endorsing faculty shared principles denouncing the bigoted ignorance of the Students Union]] // |
| Three or more fallacies compounded on top of one another, do not make a sound argument. Mere volume and duration are not proof, but merely ad nauseum. | Three or more fallacies compounded on top of one another, do not make a sound argument. Mere volume and duration are not proof, but merely ad nauseum. |
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| * **Appeal to Brute Force** [[wp>fallacy ad baculum]] - occupying shared space, denying access, and threatening the use of force, might enable you to subdue an opponent from making his argument, but it won't enable you to actually prove your counter, or make 2+2=5. A confession or admission obtained under such duress, is not valid in court and does not constitute sincere agreement, any more than it changes the underlying reality. Also, coercing worshippers to bow before an idol, does not constitute actual worship. Nevertheless, Jews are forbidden to submit to such duress, and required instead to sacrifice their lives for "sanctification of the name". | * **Appeal to Brute Force** [[wp>fallacy ad baculum]] - occupying shared space, denying access, and threatening the use of force, might enable you to subdue an opponent from making his argument, but it won't enable you to actually prove your counter, or make 2+2=5. A confession or admission obtained under such duress, is not valid in court and does not constitute sincere agreement, any more than it changes the underlying reality. Also, coercing worshippers to bow before an idol, does not constitute actual worship. Nevertheless, Jews are forbidden to submit to such duress, and required instead to sacrifice their lives for "sanctification of the name". |
| * **Verbal abuse** [[wp>fallacy ad hominem]]. "punk", "bitch", "bastard". A bitch is a not a bad thing to be, if you're dog. A female is not bad either. Your deliberate misgendering me, a man, is not only an act of verbal sexual violence against me, it is a misogynist insult to women everywhere, and to females of any species. Your dehumanization and sexist misogyny will not defeat my arguments, but they will corrupt your thought process. No, not all cops are bastards, but even if some are, [[http://BastardsLivesMatter.org|Bastards Lives Matter]]. | * **Verbal abuse** [[wp>fallacy ad hominem]]. "punk", "bitch", "bastard". A bitch is a not a bad thing to be, if you're dog. A female is not bad either. Your deliberate misgendering me, a man, is not only an act of verbal sexual violence against me, it is a misogynist insult to women everywhere, and to females of any species. Your dehumanization and sexist misogyny will not defeat my arguments, but they will corrupt your thought process. No, not all cops are bastards, but even if some are, [[http://BastardsLivesMatter.org|Bastards Lives Matter]]. |
| * **Prejudicially false accusations** framed as a [[wp>loaded question]], assuming facts not in evidence: "why'd you touch those kids?", "have you registered yet as a sex offender?". (FYI - that is a heinous crime, and anyone who does it ought to be severely prosecuted, since a minor can't given informed consent. I've never even been tempted to do this; as I feel sexual attraction only toward adult women. Why are you asking me this loaded question? To start an unfounded rumor, in attempting to discredit my political argument? This is amounts to another ad hominem fallacy, and we should reject these deliberative deceptive tactics, which are intellectually dishonest.) We should honor and value children as little humans, teach them good boundaries so they can protect themselves, and help them to mature into healthy and successful adults. But child exploitation is like rape or enslavement, it is "stealing a human life", and as such a capital crime, punishable by heaven if not by human court. But perjury is also a crime - "You shall not bear false witness against the life of your neighbor". And a witness found to be false, should suffer the penalty he conspired to bring on his fellow - in this case, expulsion and mob violence. Spreading these rumors and insinuations merely in order to defame a political adversary, does not merely smear the adversary's reputation, it leaves the rumormonger prejudiced and ignorant, and worse - it appropriates and exploits the trauma of children who have actually been victimized, risks undermining the credibility of their testimonies, and turns them into pawns for disinformation campaigns of political agitators. Avoid the such liars; expel them from your activist group; do not share their company as they will discredit and destroy your movement. | * **Prejudicially false accusations** framed as a [[wp>loaded question]], assuming facts not in evidence: "why'd you touch those kids?", "have you registered yet as a sex offender?". (FYI - that is a heinous crime, and anyone who does it ought to be severely prosecuted, since a minor can't given informed consent. I've never even been tempted to do this; as I feel sexual attraction only toward adult women. Why are you asking me this loaded question? To start an unfounded rumor, in attempting to discredit my political argument? This is amounts to another ad hominem fallacy, and we should reject these deliberative deceptive tactics, which are intellectually dishonest.) We should honor and value children as little humans, teach them good boundaries so they can protect themselves, and help them to mature into healthy and successful adults. But child exploitation is like rape or enslavement, it is "stealing a human life", and as such a capital crime, punishable by heaven if not by human court. But perjury is also a crime - "You shall not bear false witness against the life of your neighbor". And a witness found to be false, should suffer the penalty he conspired to bring on his fellow - in this case, expulsion and mob violence. Spreading these rumors and insinuations merely in order to defame a political adversary, does not merely smear the adversary's reputation, it leaves the rumormonger prejudiced and ignorant, and worse - it appropriates and exploits the trauma of children who have actually been victimized, risks undermining the credibility of their testimonies, and turns them into pawns for disinformation campaigns of political agitators. Avoid the such liars; expel them from your activist group; do not share their company as they will discredit and destroy your movement. This was a [[wp>red herring]], and a distraction, but hopefully those hunting dogs who've read this far have eaten the herring, and learned something that is morally useful. |
| * [[wp>fallacy ad nauseum]] - repeating a falsehood dozens of times doesn't make it true, it just makes you ignorant, prejudiced, and incapable of critical thinking. Repeating a moral error dozens of times doesn't make it righteous, it only makes you a totalitarian who does evil by statute. | * [[wp>fallacy ad nauseum]] - repeating a falsehood dozens of times doesn't make it true, it just makes you ignorant, prejudiced, and incapable of critical thinking. Repeating a moral error dozens of times doesn't make it righteous, it only makes you a totalitarian who does evil by statute. |
| * [[wp>Overgeneralization]], false equivalence - "IDF, KKK, PPB, you're all the same". Military and police are not the same in their purpose, discipline, or jurisdiction, although they fall in the general class of "organizations that bear arms", as do the KKK. The KKK differs in that it was organization that whose purpose was to terrorize black people (and occasionally Jews and Catholics) by burning crosses and wearing white hoodies to hide beyond anonymous mobs and maintain plausible deniability, which neither the IDF or PPB do. Antifa and other PFLP/Samidoun affiliates, however, are similar to KKK in that they wear hoodies as part of their security culture, and they target institutions perceived as Jewish, as do also Hamas, PIJ, and pro-Palestinian militant protestors generally. Pro-Israeli counterprotestors in America generally do not cover their faces or seek anonymity. Also, the IDF now operates over a territory smaller than New Jersey, whereas the KKK operated over the most of the American south and much of the Western states. Within that area, it operates against Palestinian militants who, like many protestors here in America, support the total destruction and abolition of Israel, to establish an independent Palestine in its place. Southern blacks never sought the total destruction of the U.S., nor did they ever conduct a massacre of whites, even remotely close to the 1,200 Israelis massacred during the Oct 7th, "Al-aqsa flood", nor did they take hostages. | * [[wp>Overgeneralization]], false equivalence - "IDF, KKK, PPB, you're all the same". Military and police are not the same in their purpose, discipline, or jurisdiction, although they fall in the general class of "organizations that bear arms", as do the KKK. The KKK differs in that it was organization that whose purpose was to terrorize black people (and occasionally Jews and Catholics) by burning crosses and wearing white hoodies to hide beyond anonymous mobs and maintain plausible deniability, which neither the IDF or PPB do. Antifa and other PFLP/Samidoun affiliates, however, are similar to KKK in that they wear hoodies as part of their security culture, and they target institutions perceived as Jewish, as do also Hamas, PIJ, and pro-Palestinian militant protestors generally. Pro-Israeli counterprotestors in America generally do not cover their faces or seek anonymity. Also, the IDF now operates over a territory smaller than New Jersey, whereas the KKK operated over the most of the American south and much of the Western states. Within that area, it operates against Palestinian militants who, like many protestors here in America, support the total destruction and abolition of Israel, to establish an independent Palestine in its place. Southern blacks never sought the total destruction of the U.S., nor did they ever conduct a massacre of whites, even remotely close to the 1,200 Israelis massacred during the Oct 7th, "Al-aqsa flood", nor did they take hostages. |